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* VOLUME XXX . J ^ ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS. THURSDAY, APRIL *7, 1939 ~~ _____NUMBER 4
Tests at 3 Extremes of Field Share Oil Spotlight
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Over 100 Seamen
Leave Ships Here
Many Seamen Are
Called Off Ships
In Tanker Strike
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Over 100 Leave Ships
as Strike Enters
Second Week..
i*The National Maritime Union
tanker strike has called off more
than 115 seamen from four ships
^docking at Ingleside and Harbor
Island, Harry Brownwell, NMU
agent here, announced in the second
■week of the widespread strike
against four oil companies, includ- j
ing the Standard of New jersey.
Picket lines, working in six hour
ahifts, with from six to 10 men per
ahift, were established at the street
"behind the old Neptune Cafe near
the entrance to the Harbor Island
<auseway. Union officials indicat-
ed that none of the filling stations
^at Aransas Pass would be picketed,
•due to the fact that all local stations
■were operated by individuals rather
than by companies.
Texas rangers and San Patricio
and Nueces county officers kept
close watch on developments but
"had received orders not to molest
[peaceful picket lines. A disturb-
ince Friday night and Saturday w^j
| the only violence reported.
Disturbance
Clarisch Sentence
For Murder of Cole
is Upheld by Court
The Court of Criminal Appeals
in Austin upheld Tuesday the 20-
year sentence given by 4 . San
Patricio district court to' Christo
pher Clarisch, 41, for the murder
of James Thomas Cole, Aransas
Pass boatman, on the morning of
September 14.
Cole was killed in an affray
near the entrance to the Rice
Brothers Cannery 4docks in a
clash between striking shrimp
workers and a group of boatmen.
Versions of the Friday night en-
counter between officers and pick-
<ts were at variance. Officers said
that the picket line had stopped cars
moving towards the causeway and
had continued to stop them after a
warning, whereupon the picket line
was broken up and the union hall
■near the Stanzel Hotel “cleaned
out.” Strikers, on the other hand,
claimed that they were picketing
peacefully and had been “set upon”
by officers without cause, produc-
ing affidavits to support their as-
sertions. No charges have been
filed by either side, however.
Union headquarters at Aransas
Pass set up a kitchen, with mem-
bers of the cooks and stewards de-
partment doing the cooking, and
were feeding the strikers. Support
was being given the union by affil-
iated organizations and by sympa-
thetic individuals.
Ships Sail
PTanker3 docking here continued
to sail with new crews to replace
IN MU walkouts. Considerable spe-
culation has arisen concerning the
•origin of these new crews. At least
portion of them, observers said,
came from the ranks of non-union
seamen, many of whom sail on At-.
HMtic Oil &• Refining tankers which-
haJUe no agreement with the union.
The Atlantic docks at Harbor Is-
land have been designated as a
<<free” docks and NMU men are
ipermitted to load Atlantic ships and
j sail as a crew and work behind
j picket lines, Agent Brownwell said.
Sanford is Open
Fornm Speaker on
II. $. Democracy
Speaker Cites Some
Dangers to the
American Way.
Oommission Meets
in First Official
Session of Terms
City Jailer and City
Foreman Jobs Are
Left Open.
Appointive offices in the city ad-
ministration were confirmed in
seven cases and appointments de-
ferred in two cases as the mayor
and commissioners of the City of
Aransas Pass had their first formal
meeting in the city hall Monday
morning. Mayor M. W. Clayborn
presided, and City Clerk Frank Bel-
ken sat with Commissioners L. D.
Crumly and W. C. Htcks to com-
plete the official meeting.
The city council voted to leave
vacant the office of city jail keeper,
for which the city had been paying
$50 monthly to Deputy Sheriff May
Keepers. They also left open the
appointment of a superintendent of
the city streets pending the finding . Pritchard & Abbott, valuation en-
of a qualified man to fill the vac?.n- !gineer» of Fort Worth, who have a
cy created by the withdrawal of R. | two-year contract for Aransas Pass
T. Clark. school district valuations.
Besides approving the appo^*. j The first meeting of the equaliza-
ment of Frank Belken as city clerk jtion board will be held sometime
and tax assessor-collector, the com- before May 15, Supt H. T. Faulk
mission appointed Mrs. Celestia announced. Following their meet-
“I do not believe that our dem-
ocratic government will ever be
wrecked by the isms which flour-
ish in other parts of the world, but
that if it is wrecked it will be from
within by those who govern,” N.
D. Sanford, new commander of the
VFW, declared in a speech on
“Americanism and Democracy” be-
fore the Open Forum Tuesday
night.
Tracing briefly the growth of a
free and soverign country, from
the Revolution to the present day,
Sanford characterized as dangers
to America and Democracy the pre-
sence of indifference and greed, ig-
norance and intolerance. Other
threats to the American form of
government included the misuse of
police power and the existence of
subversive organizations.,
“Be on the alert to protect our
government from un-American ten-
dencies, from force and injustice, so
that we may preserve that freedom
for which we have fought,” San-
ford said in conclusion.
School Board Names
Teachers for Year
Tax Equalization
Board Appointed
by School Board
R. L. Mercer, N. D.
Sanford and H. K.
Miller Named.
A board of tax equalization for
the Aransas Pass Independent
School District was appointed at
the regular meeting of the school
board at the high school Monday
night.
Appointed to the board were R.
L. Mercer, N. D. Sanford and H.
K. Miller., They will work with
Wingfield as deputy city tax asses-
sor and collector, a position1 that she
has fulfilled without the title in re-
cent months.
Other administration officials ap-
pointed were: Clifford Cavitt, city
water and sewer superintendent; J.
M. Johnson, night watchman; Os-
car Hall, city marshal; Ted Bige-
low, fire marshal.
The naming of a city attorney to
represent the municipality in cases
that may come up before City
Judge J. F. Newbury was discussed
by the commission but $n appoint-
ment was deferred.
Mrs. Arlin Yeager taking Rip II
and Billy Ed to get a haircut Sat-
rday afternoon........Mrs. Jay Green
_n vacation while her husband and
sons were in San Antonio—....a big
juquet of Easter lilies gracing the
anter in DuBose Drug........Dr. E.
Jones and family working in
l__icir yard. Mrs. W. D. Barr's lit-
tle dog locked in her car in the mid-
Ac of Commercial, barking until
she appeared........Mrs. Harold Cun-
iiff and little son, both dressed in
Mue, paying an early morning visit
|to her mother’s.
Mayme Mae Ridgway and Retha
t helping the senior class by
ping to sell senior play tickets
Witt and little niece out
.............Ed Yeager presenting
is with bouquets of the beauti-
jses he grew.......a little girl
dring her shoes with those o*
t. in the postoffice, telling him
were newer than his, when at>-
'little girl disagreed “I’ll bet
aren't, you can look at the
of his and tell”...........Virgina
fstedler knitting during the in-
lission at the Civic Music con-
Mrs. Roy, Newsom and Mrs. A.
flkadtrs visiting friends Wednes-
afternooii........Lorraine Howery
Mrs. Lefty Moore bicycle rid-
Cofnmercial Wednesday
Moorhouse re-ar-
ming the type for
pads.
tion club will be hostesses Friday,
May 5, for the annual meeting of
the San Patricio County Federation
of Woman’s Clubs.
The meeting will open at 10:30
a. m. in the Odem Methodist
Church. Guest speaker Will be the
Rev. W. C. Munds of Corpus
Chris ti.
Included in the business to be
r N. D. SANFORD: One of the
most pressing needs in San
Patricio county is a county hos-
pital, where the poor of the coun-
ty can be given proper hospital
treatment.
T. J. McMECKLE: After work-
ing/two years in a big city it’s
fine to be able to see the sun
shine all day in Aransas Pass.
transacted by the organization is
the election of officers and the an-
nual report from clubs, with the
federation president, Mrs. P. L.
Johnson of Sinton in charge.
MAYOR M. W. CLAYBORN:
Aransas Pass needs and should
plan to provide a bathing beach
for tourists and for-oar own resi-
dents. ,(4;
Federation Clubs
To Hold Meet
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Odem, the Odem Woman's Club
Extension Granted
imi City Drilling
Cor gey & Grote were granted a
15-day, extension on their May 1
deadline for the spudding of the
first of 18 wells within the city
limits for Conn Brown, according
to the agreement between the opera-
tors and Brown approved by the
mayor and commissioners at a spe-
cial call meeting Saturday.
The operators now have to spud
by May 15. The contract calls for
an offset or another well within
30 days of each completion. The
approval of this contract by the
city was the first official act of the
rew city administration.
They Say
Strange Tale of Death
From a Tarpon is Told
by Old Island Resident
A strange tale of death on the
high seas is told by Uncle Matt
Rujan, 85, an old sea cook who left
his home in Austria-Hungary at the
age of 12 and has finally settled
down among the shifting sand
du#s of Mustang Island.
The story concerns the year 1885,
when few persons lived on Mustang
Island. Uncle Matt started out
from the Island bound for Galves-
ton to bring back supplies for the
few Mustang Island seUlers.^
One morning Uncle 'Matt's mste
sighted a small sailboat far out to
sea, its sails hanging loosely The
boat made erratic tacks, fell off
from the seas and acted without ap-
parent guidance.
Uncle Matt put his sailboat about
and went to investigate. When
they came up with the boat they
saw a prone figure lying across the
narrow deck'beside the helm. Be-
side him was a great tarpon, also
dead, and in the flapping sail a great
ragged hole. J2P'
Unce Matt, though admitting that
his explanation of the tragedy may
be a little fantastic, believes that
the sailor ran bis boat into a school
of feeding tarpon, and that ohe,
frightened, leaped from the water
in his rush to escape, plunged thru
the sail to atrike the navigator of
the boat vucti a blow as to kill him.
The old seaman's explanation
does not seem too fantastic, how-
ever, when It is remembered that
Dr. <R. L. Sutton of Kansas City,
suffered a serious jolt which dis-
placed some of his vertebrae when
an excited tarpon crashed down on
his head as he played him. The
doctor was in bed four weeks as a
result of this injury.
ings the board will hold hearings
upon the valuations set on property
in the school district.
Chamber Deplores
Closing of Hug
the Coast Highway
Authorizes Scrivner
to Seek Relief from
Closing:.
Paving, of the Lamar-Refugio
county line of Highway 35 to Hous- 1
ton which resulted in the closing |
of the road to traffic was deplored
by the Aransas Pass Chamber of
Commerce directors in session Mon-
day night.
The directors authorized W. A.
Scrivner, president, to communi-
cate with the State Highway De-
partment and representatives in the (
legislature from this district to see
if it were possible to open the road
while the paving was going on.
“The closing of this highway is
beginning to hurt us,” Scrivner said.
“It seems hardly necessary to close
the road altogether, even if they
are working on it.”
President Scrivner also announ-
ced that the phamplets being pub-
lished by the Chamber would be
ready for distribution in the near
fiitura.____j___‘___,_•_
New Elementary
School Name “Wal-
ter Noble School.”
-seven , teachers* appoint-
ments for the'(?39.1940 school year
were announced by H. T. Faulk,
superintendent of schools, following
a meeting of the Aransas Pass In-
dependent School District board on
Monday night. They will serve dur-
ing the coming year in the new ele-
mentary school building, the old
grammar school, the high school
and the Mexican school.
In addition to confirming the ap-
pointments of teachers, the school
board adopted a resolution naming
the new elementary school building
the “Walter Noble School." The
resolution was passed over the pro-
test of Dr. Walter -Noble, president
of the board.
Appointed for the coming school
year were the following teachers:
High School
P. T. Brown, H. K. Browning,
Virginia Draper, R. F. Harden, Vir-
gin:a Huf»tedler, Edith Pfluger,
Je» Reams, Edna White and R.
L C
Elementary School
Mrs. W. T. Henry, Herman Bor-
oughs, Opal tshun, Mildred Wells,
and Mary Louise Jordan.
Elementar ySchool
First grade; Stella Colei Nannie
Eeth Rice and Katherine Sloan.
Second Grade: Mrs. T. R. Allen,
Velda Wells and Helen Stolz.
Third grade: Jeanette Yonker
and Dora Beth Smith.
Fourth grade: Mrs. P. T. Brown
and Naomi Dinsmore.
Mexican School
J. R. Acevedo and Mrs. J. R.
Acevedo.
NO CAR—NO WORK I
Mr* V"'
.
Bluebeard’s Handy
Man Gets Two Year
Clifton Wheeler, negro handyman
of Joe Ball, the “Elmendorff Blue-
beard,” who admitted helping Ball
dispose of the bodies of two murd-
ered women, was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary in Bexar
county district court Tuesday.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of
murder by accessory after the fact
in connection with the burial of
Hazel Brown near Elmendorff. It
was predicted that charges against
Wheeler as an accessory after to
the fact to the murder of Minnie
Gotthardt, whose body was found
in the dune country of Old Ingle-
jside last October, would be drop-
jped.
Wheeler led South Texas offic-
both rj rtT5 grave 5f Hazel
I Brown and to .the grave of Minnie
I Gotthardt. No action has been re-
Roy Garret."oTRobstown receiv-;f"""1 by ,he San. Pa'rido
ed painful injuria, of the head and:'ury »» the contpla.nt .igned by
Lee Miller, Texas ranger, before
'.Justice N. D. Sanford, charging
. * ; Wheeler with murder after the find-
' An employe of Tom G™h»m. >« °' ,h' w<>mln', bo<,)' near
Garrett was tightening a girder bolt e' ' .
when the wrench slipped and he »» ,■ • . n ■ .
feii to the derrick floor. Athlete Breaks Leg:
He was taken to a Robstown hos- \n So ft ball Game
pital in a Cage ambulance. i
Worker Injured
Fall from Derrick
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Because Mr Reginald J. T. Wild-
yard, governor of Bermuda, was un-
able to persuade the Bermuda as-
sembly la allow him the uee at an
automobile on the Island he recently
tendered his resignation te the Brit*
ish colonial secretary's offlce. He
will retire la September, before hie
normal term of Bve years expires.
ImproveiMRt of
County Roads is
Assured by Grant
$86,481 Road Project
for San Patricio
County Approved.
Presidential approval has been
given to a $84,46! project for the
reconstruction and improvement of
county owned roads in San Patri-
cio county, Congressman Richard
M. Kleberg notified the Progress
by wire Wednesday.
The project is described as:
"Reconstruct and improve coun-
ty owried roads, including the wid-
ening, clearing, grubbing, grading
and graveling and other surface
treatments. Providing for the con-
struction and reconstruction of
drainage structures, eliminating of
traffic hazards, moving and recon-
structing fences, constructing new
fences, widening and sloping shoul-
Three Locations -
Two Comptotions >
Recorded in Field
Second Townsite
Test Drills Past
Surface Casing.
Resumption of drilling within tht
townsite, the early possibility of
production in the northwest corn*
er almost three and one-half mltal
away, and a location on the south
edge divided the interest of opera*
tors in the Aransas Pass field of
San Patricio and Aransas counties
during the week.
The extent of operations in th«
field can be gathered from the fact
DAILY ALLOWABLES IN
PIELD TO BE REDUCED
ABOUT 12 PER CENT
Daily allowablaa in tha Aransas
Pass field will be cut approxima-
tely 12 per cent beginning May 1,
according to the proration sche-
dule announced today by the
Texas Railroad Commission.
Allowable for April 1 was set
at 10,152, April 15, 10.521, and
May 1, 5,Ml barrels daily. In
addition, the commission decreed
that the Sunday shutdowns would
be continued through May and
June and that a half-day shut-
down would be enforced during
the same two months.
that the No. 1 Barry estitc test of
J. K. Culton and the No. 1 Mills-
Young of Sam E. Wilson are more
than three and one-half miles dis-
tant.
TOWN8ITE WELL
R. B. Bryant No. 2 Losoya, lot
13, block 750, drilling district 15 of
the Aransas Pass survey, drilled
beyond surface casing at 2100 feet.
It is the second test for the town-
site and the second of 44 similar
tests within the city limits to be
undertaken by R. B. Bryant and
Corgey & Grote. , .
THREE LOCATIONS
Three locations and two comple-
tions were recorded for the field.
Thirteen rigs were at work in var-
ious parts of the field.
Sam E. Wilson was rigging pp
for/the No. 1 Mills-Young, on the
lir* between two 10-acre tracts in
blocks 73 and 74.
Rantex Oil Co., rigged and spud-
ded the No. 1 Houghton-Wheeler,
ders and constructing water retards ?n *',,r between tracts 1 and 9
within the right of way boundaries
not included in the federal aid high-
way system. The project also in-
cludes the operation of quarries and
gravel pits to produce materials for
use in the pr'oject. The project will
operate throughout San Patricio
county."
As approved, the project is in ad
in block 204, one location west of
the city limits.
R. B. Bryant No. 1 Stockton es-
tate, on the line between tracts 2
and 3 in block 203, a location for
the week .drilled beyond surface
casing at 1900 feeL
COMPLETIONS
Richardson Petroleum Co., No.
dition to projects specifically ap-Jeter, on the line between lots 14
proved. The sponsor is the Coui> jan<l 1* in block 74, was flowing to
ty of San Patricio. With the pre- •toruge ungauged from perfora-
sidential signature, the project nowi**011* *nto *he 7100 sand. Pressures
goes to the state administration of i were 1225 pounds on the tubing and
the Works Progress Administra- pounds on the casing.
tion for further action, according to Mortex Oil Co. Nft I Kttthli in
Congressman Kleberg’s message.
Phil Fay, the son of Mr. and
Hunt Buys Market
in Hicks Grocery
George W. Hunt has purchased
the meat market department of the
Hicks Grocery on North Commer-
cial street, N. E. Hicks announced
this week.
(Continued on page 8)
Heard
The VFW Auxiliary gave their
out-going president, Mrs. Sanford,
a lovely pin and a multicolored
beaded bag at the services Friday
... — ------- ——-....... ....r iraciure 01 me icg ounaay, wnne n ■ rj.
on Neison street took on a new air|sliding into #ec(>nd base during l aCKage OtOre
this week with the'painting of the j softball game on the field back of Opening On Friday
office and stock room. The‘front
part of the building underwent a
“face lifting” consisting of orna-
mental tin work and a paint job.
Shop Here
Am experienced handler of meats,1 night........a woman in the show on
Hunt will carry a complete line of Sunday remarking that she thought
fancy beef and other fresh meats, as i,t.,was .* *haJ”e Pa/.',!.wa*n 1
well general line of quality ^ ' 1.°..^ ^
rejr, me sou ui «nu ■ . « . . fMr§. M. D. ScoflCid WAS Almost to
| HUTSON REMODELS iMrs. Ed Fay, received a compound cured meatS’ chee,e and other ,tem8* Corpus Monday night when she
H. L. Hutson’s blacksmith shop fractUre of the leg Sunday, while n ■ 77T discovered she had forgotten her
...... ' 1 «—■----04--- (Civic Music Assn, ticket.
| Mrs. J. D. Kursell, Mrs. Fred
Cunningham and Mrs. Loyd Rich-
ardson discussing methods for rid-
dMg their flower gardens of the
spring worms.™.....A. Wayne Brown
admitting the Battle of Flowers
Friday was much better than he
expected it to be................Mrs. Jack
Boatright saying she lived in San
Antonio 15 years and never saw a
Battle of Flowere—the crowds were
too large.......;Dr. J. F. Jones declar-
ing the one handicap of not smok-
ing or not eatiiyg candy is having
to refuse it when someone offers
it to him.
Hitler's speech will be broadcast
a* 5:00 A. M. Friday morning.......
Christal Bell Couchman’s voice has
mysteriously disappeared and she
may have to resort to throwing
thipga at her heckling fond friends
........that the human hre*rt contracts
30 million times a year ....Mrs. Ray
Williams deciding she wouldn't
ever go to Corpus on Thursday
again because she had to hurry too
much to get back in time^to buy a
Progress..™....Leo Barron, seeing
picture of Will Rogers, recallii
that he was the only one who cool
and would criticize anybody
get away with it.
Hick*a Grocery: .ir;
Matches, two boxes ----------
Choice Veal Steak, lb. ™™„.
'Hominy, No. '2 can _______
Morrison’s Pood Store;
Spuds, 10 pounds -------------
Crisco, 3 pounds____________
Oxydcd, large package ___
Pick ft Pay Grocery:
Milk, RftW, three large _____
Search, three large pkg* .—
Jello, assorted -flivors. each
Houghton's Pood Store: <
‘Dog Flood, six cans __________
'Fancy Pot Roast, pound „
Quick Ade, three for_____
Lee’s Grocery:
'Lettuce, head................
Pig Liver, pound
the Panther Den.
The young Aransas Pass high
school athlete went to the ground
for a elide, struck a short stretch of
sand and then hit sortie hard clay
in front of the base. His shoe
caught in the clay and snapped his
leg just above the ankle.
After an examination in a local
physician’s office Fay was taken to
his home. He will probably be
confined to bed for two or three,
months, it was said.
Jmx
___________„4C
__________A6c
pound—.-85c
HUGH LEE BUYS FIRST
BUSHEL OP CUCUMBBR8
OFFERED LOCAL MARKET
B. F. Lockhart, truck grower
in the Aransas Pass-Ingleside
asm, brought tha. first bushel of
tmV season’s cucumbers to a lo-
cal market Fndey. Hugh Lee
bought this first bushel of native
cucumbers.
Following its custom. The Pro-
gress takes pleasure in awarding
Mbs a year’s subscription to The
iftb
■A new package store for Aran-
sas Pass, the Oasis Liquor Store,
will have its formal opening Fri-
day, April 28. Sidney and J. W.
Brewster are the proprietors of the
store.
The Oasis is located on North
Commercial street and will carry
« complete line of domestic wines
and whiskies and gins, as well as
tobaccos and novelties. Special
prices will prevail on certain items
during the day of formal opening
Friday. .
We Invite---
Mr. arid Mrs. W C. Beneker
to be the guests of The Pro-
gress at the picture, "St. Louis
'Blues’’ at the Rialto Sunday and
Monday. This notice clipped
from The Progress will be your
admission ticket.
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